Are you guilty?’ said Winston.
‘Of course I’m guilty!’ cried Parsons with a servile glance at the telescreen. ‘You don’t think the Party would arrest an innocent man, do you?’ His frog-like face grew calmer, and even took on a slightly sanctimonious expression. ‘Thoughtcrime is a dreadful thing, old man,’ he said sententiously. ‘It’s insidious. It can get hold of you without your even knowing it. Do you know how it got hold of me? In my sleep! Yes, that’s a fact. There I was, working away, trying to do my bit—never knew I had any bad stuff in my mind at all. And then I started talking in my sleep. Do you know what they heard me saying?’
He sank his voice, like someone who is obliged for medical reasons to utter an obscenity.
‘“Down with Big Brother!” Yes, I said that! Said it over and over again, it seems. Between you and me, old man, I’m glad they got me before it went any further. Do you know what I’m going to say to them when I go up before the tribunal? “Thank you,” I’m going to say, “thank you for saving me before it was too late.”’
‘Who denounced you?’ said Winston.
‘It was my little daughter,’ said Parsons with a sort of doleful pride. ‘She listened at the keyhole. Heard what I was saying, and nipped off to the patrols the very next day. Pretty smart for a nipper of seven, eh? I don’t bear her any grudge for it. In fact I’m proud of her. It shows I brought her up in the right spirit, anyway.’
George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
Lol MAGAts aren’t doing what the meme says, they’re cheering it on, because ThOSe DaMn DeMoCrAps are finally getting taken care of
Hitler completely dismantled democracy in 53 days. Trump has been in office for 88 days.
The Weimarer Republic was a very young democracy, it existed only for 15 years and before that Germany was a monarchy. Trump is dismantling the oldest democracy at the moment
Followed by US natural born citizens by year’s end.
Year’s end feels like forever away
I don’t have up to date knowledge about this American stuff and what is happening but I’d like my gov to deport and send somewhere far away certain criminals. Why not send all convicted rapists and pedophiles to some desert. I think it should be nationality agnostic thing
The way this works is they make you feel so afraid of criminals that you want someone cruel in power to protect you from them.
Problem is they need to keep you afraid and keep on being cruel to maintain power. So they will constantly be adding groups of people to the list. The eventual outcome is you may be added to the list and sent to a gulag. But maybe if you’re lucky you won’t and you merely live in fear that your government will execute it’s cruelty on you if you ever speak out.
Living in a system dominated by fear and cruelty isn’t how I want to live. Why do you want to live that way?
I don’t know what you are talking about. There is no cruelty or fear. We just send the rapists and pedos in space or elsewhere. Somewhere far away
Is that causing you to tremble
The person sent was not charged with any crimes.
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I’m not the one living in fear, you are.
I’m fine with criminals being held in a prison in my own country and still having human rights no matter what crime they committed because I haven’t been made to be afraid of criminals. They’re the criminals that did horrific things to people, I don’t feel the need to do horrific things to criminals (which would make me the same as them) because I’m afraid.
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I vote we send you first.
I didn’t commit any serious offences. We only should send precise group of offenders
So said by everyone unjustly imprisoned. Without due process, how would we know if that’s true? May what you wish upon others happen to you first.
And when a government gets to decide who goes and who doesn’t without due process….
What then?
Starting to think this is a tipping point actually. I won’t hold my breathe but there are signs.
the problem, is the people currently protesting arnt magats, its only the progressive, not everyone is on board with that yet, until the republicans are doing it to, something will change.
Lots are former maga believe it or not. Now maga tends to win through gerrymandering not popularity and tend to be more geographically isolated, so they don’t have the numbers dems do and are more stubborn, but it’s happening.
